San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo provides opening remarks at the 2018 State of the Valley Conference in San Jose on 02-09-2018. The good, bad, and ugly of Silicon Valley’s dynamic economy came into scrutiny on Friday in San Jose that examined the region’s job boom, venture financing surge, housing crisis and traffic mess. George Avalos / Bay Area News Group

Bay Area doesn’t have
space for expansion

It is heartwarming to read “It’s a long road for new homes” (Page 1A, March 12) about the passionate fight from homeowners in Los Gatos and other communities against reckless housing development.

It is about time homeowners in the Bay Area push back against attempts by local politicians, greedy developers and shady special interests to turn our once beautiful, clean and quiet into urban ghetto. The housing “crisis” is not something natural and not inevitable. It is purely man-made due to out-of-control expansion of companies in the area.

There is plenty of empty land in California outside the Bay Area for these companies to expand and relocate. We homeowners need to unite and fight harder than before to tell them “not in my backyard. ”

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